| Summary: | This collection consists of two letters from Captain, later Major, William Henry Forney of the 10th Alabama Infantry Regiment to his wife, Mary Eliza Forney. William Henry Forney (1823-1894) was a lawyer from Jacksonville, Alabama, who served in General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia throughout the Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of brigadier general. After the war, he was a member of the U.S. Congress from Alabama from 1875-1893. The letters in this collection describe camp life, the Virginia countryside, and the Confederate army’s defensive works near Yorktown, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign in 1862.
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